Thank you! This has brought me a little close to my goal. Unfortunately the Main_Page I get to is not the pretty one I was seeing before (with a sunflower, and other mediawiki decorations and such). You can see what I get by going here: http://trhj.homeunix.net/mfqzww
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Darren VanBuren wrote: > Yes, the Main Page is in the database. > > Assuming you're using Apache, simply enable mod_alias and then put > this in your Apache Config: > > ScriptAlias /mfqzww /srv/mediawiki/index.php > > Then change $wgScriptPath. > > Darren VanBuren > ------------------------- > Sent from my iPod > > Try Fedora 10 today. Fire it up. http://fedoraproject.org/ > > On May 3, 2009, at 0:18, "Theodore D. Sternberg" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'd like to change $wgScriptPath from the default of "/wiki", but >> I'm having >> trouble. If I want to change it to, say, "/mfqzww", do I need to >> create >> a directory called "mfqzww" somewhere? (Didn't think so; there's no >> directory >> called "wiki".) >> >> Generally, I don't understand where things are. When I point a >> browser to >> localhost/wiki, I get redirected to localhost/wiki/index.php/ >> Main_Page. I >> see I have an index.php in /srv/mediawiki (same as the directory with >> LocalSettings.php). But where is Main_Page? There's no such file. >> Is >> Main_Page just something in a MySql database? >> >> My goal is quite simple. I'm trying to set up a wiki for myself and a >> few friends (we're not all on the same network though), and I'd like >> to rely on obscurity to keep the material reasonably invisible to the >> rest of the world. Unwanted visitors might guess http://tedsserver.net/wiki >> , >> but probably not something like http://tedsserver.net/mfqzww. So >> that's >> all I want to do; change "wiki" to "mfqzww". And unfortunately, just >> changing $wgScriptPath doesn't seem to be enough. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
